CM – Kiwi cricketers fleeing Covid-19 arrive home from India on a private jet

GEORGE BLOCK

Last updated 9:57 PM May 8, 2021

Kiwi cricketers and coaching staff left Covid and devastated India on a chartered private jet.

A group of Kiwi cricketers and coaches who had fled Covid-ravaged India arrived in Auckland on a private jet on Saturday evening.

The cricketers arrived at Auckland Airport shortly after 8pm on Saturday left India after the Indian Premier League was banned.

Over the past week, the country has seen an average of nearly 400,000 cases a day, while in India 238,000 people have died of Covid-19 since the pandemic began.

The group of cricketers traveled on a Bombardier Global Express private jet via Tokyo on the first of two charter flights on which players were repatriated. Upon arrival they got into controlled isolation and a second flight was due to leave India on Saturday night.

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The cricketers on the first flight were Trent Boult, Finn Allen, Jimmy Neesham, Adam Milne and Scott Kuggeleijn with coaches and former players James Pamment and Shane Bond and Mike Hesson, Director of Cricket Operations at Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Lockie Ferguson, Brendon McCullum, commentators Simon Doull and Scott Styris, referee Chris Gaffaney and coach and former player Stephen Flemin are expected to board the second flight g and Kyle Mills.

Black Caps batsman Tim Seifert, who tested positive for Covid-19, remains in India awaiting transfer to a private hospital in Chennai, where former Australian player Michael Hussey is being treated after he tested positive earlier this week.

The New Zealand testing contingent in New Zealand, Kane Williamson, Mitchell Santner, Kyle Jamieson and physiotherapist Tommy Simsek, have moved to the Maldives instead of the originally planned New Zealand To stay in Delhi before traveling to England, NZ Cricket said in a statement.

The decision to relocate the players to the island nation was made against the background of the fact that their entry into the UK was originally intended for the May 11th, would likely be delayed for another week.

Once he underwent treatment and isolation and tested negative for Covid-19, he will be brought back to New Zealand, where he will stay in a managed isolation facility for two weeks.

Meanwhile, other travelers in Australia face another day of waiting before the quarantine-free flights between New South Wales and New Zealand on Sunday at 11pm: 59 a.m. Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins says the end of the trans Tasman bubble hiatus with Sydney depends on there being no significant other troubles in the trench.

The end of the break is in line with the lifting of restrictions in New South Wales on Monday at 12:01 p.m.

Health officials met on Saturday to further assess the risk from recent cases in the Covid-19 community Sydney said Hipkins. « It has been found that the public health risk in New Zealand remains low, » said Hipkins.

The resumption of flights at a stroke before midnight On Sunday, New South Wales has « no major developments ».

Anyone who was in any of the Australian locations of interest at the specified times has been asked to follow the New South Wales health recommendations regarding isolation . You are not allowed to travel to New Zealand within 14 days, according to a statement from Hipkins.

« As before, anyone who has arrived in New Zealand and is in a place of interest at the specified time must immediately self-check isolate and call Healthline for information on when to test it. « 

Direct flights from New South Wales were suspended at 11:59 pm Thursday as Australian health officials investigated two cases of Covid-19 in Sydney. There have been no other community cases.

According to Hipkins, health officials are reassured that the two cases were included in the Sydney community, and there was no evidence of widespread undetected transmission in the community.

Players descend onto the tarmac to a waiting bus that will take them to the international terminal. You will be in managed isolation for 14 days.

Individuals who are or have been in Sydney will be subject to some additional public health measures.

Under the Health Act, a Section 70 Notice was made with various requirements issued for anyone in New Zealand who has visited a known place of interest or a later identified place.

The notice enables a health officer to require that individuals be tested and isolated until they receive their results. According to information on the Department of Health’s website, those affected can also be visited at home or at work by public health officials.

Previously, a kiwi who was identified as a contact person for a community case of Covid-19 in Sydney had, Obtained a negative result.

You were visiting a place of interest at the same time as either of the two positive cases recently identified in the Australian city. The patients were a man in his fifties and his wife.

The discovery of the cases on Wednesday resulted in quarantine-free travel between Sydney and New Zealand being suspended for 48 hours.

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